Don’t you hate flipping on your garbage disposal and hearing the sound of a spoon being sliced up?
Or worse: needing to always reach your hand down into the disposal to feel around in that slimy cavern for an errant piece of silverware before turning the disposal on in the first place?
There’s a solution! This thing nests into your disposal and lets water drain through while preventing things from accidentally slipping down the hole.
(I gave my parents one for Christmas a couple years ago and they continue to thank me.)
(it claims to have other features, like using the bottom of it to scrape food off plates, but that’s just a distraction from its true revolutionary genius)
(I first discovered this at a friend’s house with toddlers, and a lot of the advertising seems to center around preventing kid things from going down the disposal, so maybe it’s particularly useful if you have small children around? I’ll add it to that section just in case)
I never fill my sink (a combination of Foaming dish soap + Bounty select-a-size paper towels + if there are a lot of hand washable dishes, there’s probably a pot I can use as a bowl), but if that’s a thing you want to do, it looks like they have a version that will also function as a drain plug:
